Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22987, Eliab Eaton, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Eaton, Eliab Lucretia
NUMBER
N. 22987
CONTENTS

18.063
Elaine
Chab Caton
of Augusta in the State of Maine who was a Sgt Major in the Company commanded by Captain Harkness of the _____ commanded by _____ in the _____ line for 11 + 22 Sgt 12 - 8 Cpl.
Captain Ag
Inserted on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 103 Dollars 62 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of July 1833 and sent to R. C. Von Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $207.24 Pension allowance ending Sept. 51.81
$259.05
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Will array Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 13

Reported
1087.
Name
Lucretia Eaton widow of Eliab Eaton Hays who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Sgt. Corps
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 103 Dollars 62
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of August 1848 and sent to
G. M. Norton Augusta Me.
Recorded on Roll of Pensions February 2, 1848, 2 nd page

Augusta, Me. May 24 1833
To the Hon. LEWIS CASS, Secretary of War.
Sir:—Being now a pensioner on the Maine Roll in the receipt of a pension under the Act of Congress, of March 18, 1818, and being entitled to the benefits of the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832, by first relinquishing my further claim to the pension under the first named Act. I do accordingly hereby relinquish my further claim to such pension, and state that I served as a Sergeant in Capt. Hartshorn & Turner Company, in Col. Michael Jackson Regiment of the Massachusetts line of troops that I enlisted in March 1781 & served as corporal and was discharged in June 1783, having received my Discharge Warrant June 1783 having received my Discharge Warrant June 1783 and was discharged June 1783 as a Sergeant having received my Discharge Warrant June 1783
and do therefore respectfully request that I may be placed on the Pension List under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832. My pension, under the first named Act, was eight dollars per month. My pension certificate which is herein enclosed, is numbered 6,058 and I was last paid at the Branch Bank of the United States, at Portland, Maine, the fourth day of March 1833 I now live in Alfred in the County of Somerset Maine, and it is my request that any communications upon this subject may be addressed to ROBERT C. VOSE, Esq. of Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine.
I am Sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant.
Eliza Eaton
1. I served as Corporal 1 Year & 11 M s as sergeant 11 M s & 22 days

Eliab Eaton Strong
65 11
Declaration is to be made in the court of the county where the defendant resides.
Robert F. Fox Augusta Maine
That you have the

100 33 State of Maine.
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this fourteenth day of June , 1820, personally appeared before  in open Court before  Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Elizah Estlin aged fifty seven years, resident in Hallowell in the County of Somerset within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Carpenter and Regiment commanded by Colonel Smith of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years .
that his original declaration was made before Judge Wadsworth on the fourteenth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6038 . And I, the said Elizah Estlin do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
E. Estlin
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz: one yearling heifer of the value of five dollars. Three swine of the value of seven dollars. Old household furniture. Bedding necessary bedding and clothing of the value of ten dollars. Old farming tools worth not more than three dollars. One pair clock wheels of the value of four dollars. I have no debts due to me that can be collected. I have no stock of two hundred dollars. My income from the above is not equal to the interest of the money I owe. My occupation has been that of a farmer, but from age and infirmity unable to labor very little. My family at home consists of myself my wife Lucretia aged fifty one years, very infirm and able to do but very little work. My son Thomas aged twenty years.

my daughter Caroline aged nineteen years my daughter Lucretia aged sixteen years, my daughter Sophia aged fourteen, and my daughter Fanny aged ten years. Except the foregoing and my necessary clothing and bedding, I have no estate or income whatever.
Eliab Weston.
Subscribed, sworn to, and declared to be the oath and schedule on the fourteenth day of June 1820.
Before me
Nathan Weston Jr 6 J C C Pleas.
True Copy
Attest J. M. Davis Clk.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original oath and schedule filed in the Clerks Office at Portsmouth in the county of Somerset Nov. 8. 1820
William Allen by Clerk for Court Somerset county
Declarations of the value of the estate the deceased made Robert (his) daughter Mary
Eliab Weston Strong 633 M. Davis

9952 Lucretia Eaton Maine
act July 7th: 1838 N o 64102
Rejected act 1842
Adm d . act 3 rd Mar 43 $103.62 per annum commencing 3 May 1843
Geo. W. Morton, Augusta Maine.

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" And an Act to amend the same approved August 23. 1842.
State of Maine.
Franklin County, S.S. On the first day of August 1843 personally appeared before me, the Open Court of Probate for said County of Franklin, at a regular session of said Court, the same being a court of record Lucretia Eaton a resident of Strong in the County of Franklin and State of Maine aged seventy three years who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" And an Act approved August 23. 1842. That she is the widow of Eliab Eaton who was a pensioner of the United States, upon the claim roll, under the Act of the 7th of June 1832 at the rate of One hundred & three dollars and sixty two cents per annum, that his pension was paid to him at the agency in Portland in the State of Maine, up to the 4th day of March 1843. and that she refers to a declaration made by him of his services in the war of the Revolution, supposed to be in possession of the War Department in support of her claim. She further declares that she was married to the said Eliab Eaton on the live of the day of

February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty nine that her husband the said Eliab Eaton died on the third day of May 1843 in the said town of Strong, that her maiden name was Lucretia Flint, that her marriage with the said Eliab Eaton was solemnized in the town of Middleborough, in the then District now State of Maine, and that since his decease she has remained unmarried Lucretia Eaton
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year within written. For August 1. 1843.
before me
Thomas Parker
Judge of the Court of Probate Franklin County Maine.
State of Maine.
Franklin County. S.S. I the subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate for said County, hereby certify that the Hon. Thomas Parker before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is the Judge of said Court of Probate for the said County of Franklin, and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Lucretia Eaton for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this first day of August A.D. 1843
S. Cram Register

CHILDREN'S MARRIAGES.
NAMES. || Month. | Day. | Year.
State of Maine
Franklin ss.
I, Joshua S. Eaton of Houlton in the County of Franklin being a son of the within named Eliah Eaton and forty years of age do testify and say that the within is the family record of my late father Eliah Eaton & the only one that I have any knowledge of was always in his possession until his death & since that time has been in my personal possession to this time.
Joshua S. Eaton
Subscribed and sworn to this first day of August A.D. 1863, the deponent being a credible witness
Before Me Thomas Parker Judge of Probate Franklin County Maine

That Eaton was born in Reading state of Mass County of Middlesex
Lucretia Flint was born in Peterborough state of New Hampshire County of Hillsborough
NAMES.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
Month. Day Year.
Month. Day Year.
ELIAB: EATON,
May 2 1763
LUCRETIA: FLINT,
Nov 20 1769
E. PLURIBUS. UNUM
LYDIA : EATON,
Oct 10 1789
HANNAH: EATON,
Feb 27 1791
ELIAB: EATON,
Feb 21 1793
Oct 29 1793
JEREMIAH: EATON,
Oct 22 1794
WILLIAM: EATON,
Sept 25 1796
Nov 9 1799

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____ 22787 Lucretia C. Coker Widow of Eliza C. Coker Died 1890
Act _____ 1904 22 48
Index: Vol A , Page 207
[Arrangement of 1870.]

9161.
Maine
Final Decree of July 23. '45
Nathaniel Gales widow of Nathaniel Gales
Reported
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 3rd May, 1843 at Franklin Co in the State of Maine who was a Corporal Vets in the Company commanded by Captain Washburn of the Regt commanded by in the Mass line for
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland Me at the rate of 103 Dollars 62 1/2 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of April, 1845 and sent to Col. Morton Augusta, Me
Total amount, $578. 60
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Thos Sampson, Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 1 Page 5.

Social Reso. of January 23. 1843
(up) No. 60.
2 Certs. 3
Reported
6103
NAME
Lucretia Eaton widow of Eliab Eaton who was a S gt & Corp l in the Mass s Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 103 Dollars 62 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March , 1843.
3rd May
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of Septem. 1843 and sent to
J. W. Morton Augusta Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book Vol. 2 Page 3

Letter to G. W. Morton 8. July 1844
Act. 1838

6058.
Maine
Eliah Eaton, sergeant.
Massachusetts line - 2 nd reg t in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of — 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 14. of April 1810
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of Jany 1819 and del d
R. C. Vose
Arrears to 1 th of Sep 1810. 4 mo 2/30 37.60 semi-ann. all ee ending 4 March 1819 48.00
$85.60
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 14 th March, 1818. }
Strong,
Pension paid under Act of December 20 1810 to R. C. Vose, Augusta, Maine.

Augusta, Maine
August 14. 1844.
Sir
In your letter of 8 th Ult: you inform me that the claim of Mrs Lucretia Eaton, widow of Eliab Eaton for pension under the Act of July 7. 1838 is rejected. in consequence of the passage of the Act of 30 th April 1844; that a certificate of pension will be issued in her name under the Act of March 3. 1843 and sent to me in a few days. As a certificate has not yet been received I suppose it may have miscarried. I would therefore respectfully request you to send me for her a duplicate if one has already been issued and not received.
Very respectfully
Your O be Servt
Geo. W. Morton
James L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions City of Washington
P. S.

Augusta Maine
Octo 24 1843.
Sir
I herewith enclose papers of Mrs. Lucretia Eaton for the purpose of having her claim to a pension under the Act of July 7, 1832 allowed. It will be seen by her declaration that she is the widow of Col. Ab. Eaton who was a pensioner under the Act of June 7, 1832 at the rate of One hundred & Three dollars and Fifty two cents per annum that his pension was paid at the Maine Agency up to March 4 1843. I would respectfully request you (if the papers are satisfactory) to allow her claim and transmit me her for a certificate.
Very respectfully
Your OBE Servt
Geo. W. Norton
James L. Gardner Esq Commr of Pensions City of Washington D.C.

Columbia, Md.
Feb. 15. 1845
Sir
I herewith enclose a declaration made by Mrs. Lucinda G. Galt to have her claim to a pension to which she is entitled under section of July 27, 1845. Also a declaration of Mrs. Sarah Galt for same. I believe to obtain the pension as her under act of March 3, 1843. And respectfully request your instructions to allow them respective claims and transmit me for them such certificates as you issue in such cases.
Very respectfully your obedt Servt G. B. Galt
James L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Eliah Eaton, 6058
Payable, semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March next,
at the Cumberland Bank, Portland
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, _____ " _____
Eliab Eaton _____ late a Sergeant _____ in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Distr. of Maine Agency, at the rate of Eight _____ dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this _____ 28 th day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

War Department, 6058.
PENSION OFFICE,
Dec 30th 1820.
SIR:
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
You will be paid at the next semi-annual payment in March next. Funds for that purpose will be transmitted at that time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr.
Hieb Eaton, Esq. Maine

Eliah Eaton
adm d 11. + 2200 Sengt 12. - 8 Cople 24 mo.
55. 3 66 44. 96 $ 103. 62

I Seth Morse of Paris in the County of Oxford, Esquire, on oath testify and say, that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, I served the first part of my time in the South Berkschire Regiment. In November 1782 the company to which I belonged was transferred to the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment and I then fell into Capt. Hootshorn's Company, when & where I became acquainted with Elias Eaton, now of Strong, in the County of Somerset & State of Maine - Said Eaton was then doing duty as a Corporal in said Company, but in the first part of January A.D. 1783, he was appointed a Sergeant in said Company, and served in said office until 22 December 1783 - at which time we were both honorably discharged by Gen. Henry Knox. but, a part of said service, after we were transferred to the Third Massachusetts Regiment and performed in Capt. Oliver Rouse's Company. - What I clearly recollect of state is, that said Eaton served as a Sergeant in said Hootshorn's & Rouse's companies, in all, from the first part of January 1783 to the 22 Dec. 1783 -
Seth Morse
Oxford, May 23. 1833 Personally appeared the above named Seth Morse & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition before me. And I hereby certify that I am intimately acquainted with said Morse, and that he is a man of unquestionable veracity.
Stephen Emery, Justice of the Peace
State of Maine.
Memorandum: I the subscriber Clerk of all the judicial Courts held within for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that Stephen Emery, Esq. is a Magistrate as above and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State this 24 th day of May 1833.

I, Seth Morse of Bristol in the County of Somerset & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that in the latter part of the year 1782, I think in the month of December, I was a soldier in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war, in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Hartshorn in the eighth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Michael Jackson, on the continental establishment, that Elias Eaton of Strong in the County of Somerset & Commonwealth aforesaid was a fellow soldier with me in the same company, I continued in service as aforesaid in the capacity of a Corporal or Sergeant part of the time in the same regiment until it was broken up & the men transferred to the third Regiment in the army on the establishment aforesaid, in which he the said Eaton continued until the close of the year 1783 making a continued term of service as aforesaid of between eleven & twelve months.
Seth Morse
United States of America District of Maine ss. Sept. 12. 1818
Personally appeared Seth Morse, esq., to me well known to be a person of truth and veracity, and made oath that the facts stated in the foregoing deposition by him signed in my presence, are true. Before me
Alcibiades C. Parsons Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine

I William Hamilton of North Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, fifty six years of age, do testify and say, that Eliab Eaton, now of Strong, in the County of Somerset served as a corporal in Capt. Thomas Horton's company Col. Michael Jackson's regiment in the Massachusetts line in the revo- lutionary war from the month of April 1781 to the month of December 1783. I served in the same company during all this period, when I was discharged and left him in the service. William Hamilton
United States of America } Sep. 21. 1818. District of Maine ss.
Personally appeared William Hamilton, above named, a person of truth and veracity, and made oath, that the facts stated in the above declaration, by him subscribed are wholly

I William Hiscock of Strong in the County of Franklin and State of Maine do depose & say that I was well acquainted with Mr. Elial Eaton late of this town deceased for about sixty years prior to his death which occurred in this town on the third day of May last past - and also with his widow Lucretia Eaton from her early infancy to this date - My first acquaintance with said Elial & Lucretia was in the vicinity of Danversport Falls Me. from which place they & myself & family removed into this town of Strong fifty four years ago last February when they & myself have been neighbours & well acquainted ever since - said Elial was to my knowledge a Pensioner of the United States for a number of years & up to his death in May or April (1843) His reputed widow Lucretia Eaton is now living in said town of Strong having remained unmarried ever since his death - The said Elial & Lucretia lived together as husband & wife from since their removal to Strong as aforesaid - were much respected in their neighbourhood for their moral character & brought up a family of children
Will m Hiscock
State of Maine
Franklin County S.S. On this Twenty first day of October A. D. 1843. Personally appeared William Hiscock above named a person known to me as a reputable witness and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before me Philip L. Stubbins Notary of the Peace

Lucina Eaton

I, Martha Flint of Nobleboro in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine Widow of eighty seven years of age on each depose and say, that I have known, the Widow Lucretia Eaton now living in Strong in the County of Franklin and State of Maine, both before and after her marriage to her late husband Eliab Eaton. — I was present at the marriage of the said Widow Lucretia Eaton (her maiden name having been Lucretia Flint) to the said Eliab Eaton, and was myself married at the same time, by the same magistrate, Arthur Noble Esq. The ceremony of the marriage of Lucretia Flint and Eliab Eaton , was performed in the Town of Nobleboro (if Nobleboro was then incorporated as a Town, and if it was not, in the Plantation of Nobleboro, the same territory now known as the Town of Nobleboro having been known and recognized as the Plantation of Nobleboro, for many years before it was incorporated.) I think in February A.D. eighteen hundred seventeen hundred and eighty nine, but I am positive it was previous to the year seventeen hundred and ninety. After the marriage Mr. Eliab Eaton, and his wife removed, to what was called the Sandy River Country, on the land now embraced within the limits of the County of Franklin in the State of Maine. I am positive as to the time of the marriage of Mr Eaton, from the

fact that I was married at the same time by the same magistrate. and from the additional fact the birth of my first born child after my marriage spoken of was in December A.D. seventeen hundred and eighty nine. There were several persons present at the marriage of Mr Eaton and Lucretia Flint. Most of them are dead I know, and I do not know that any of them are living.
In presence of John C. Coffin
Martha her X Flint mark.
State of Maine
Lincoln ss July 17. 1843. Then personally appeared Martha Flint and made her mark to the foregoing affidavit. She being, through bodily infirmity unable to write her name and swore to the truth of the affidavit to which her mark is affixed. apparently of sound mind and correct recollection. John C. Coffin, Justice of the Peace for the County of Lincoln in the State of Maine

EDWARD KAVANAGH, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE.
To all who shall see these Presents,
GREETING.
Know ye, That John R. Coffin, of Skobus; in the County of Lincoln, was on the twenty-second day of July A.D. 1843, duly commissioned and qualified to act as a Justice of the Peace & Quorum, within & for said County; That Philip M. Stotts of Strong, in the County of Franklin, was on the twenty first day of October A.D. 1843, duly qualified to act as a Justice of the Peace & Quorum, within & for said County; That Thomas Parker, of Farmington, in the County of Franklin, was duly commissioned and qualified as Judge of Probate, within and for said County, on the first day of August A.D. 1843, and that their Signatures hereunto annexed are genuine and that to them, & to each of them, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand at AUGUSTA, this twenty fourth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-three and in the sixty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By the Governor.
W. B. Folsom, Secretary of State.

Lucretia Estlin
1816 1893
admire
Geo. W. Morton Augusta Maine

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2, 1848, entitled "An Act Making further provisions for the Surviving Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. COUNTY OF Franklin }
On this Twenty fourth day of July , — A. D. 1848 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Franklin and State of Maine, Lucretia Eaton a resident of Strang in the County of Franklin aged sixty eight years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the second of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Eliab Eaton who was a Sergeant during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Eliab Eaton at the rate of One hundred dollars and Sixty five cents per annum, under the Act of June 17, 1844, which was paid to her at the Agency in Portland, in the State of Maine. She further declares that she is still a widow.
WITNESS:
Horace Clayton Sarah B. French
Lucretia Eaton
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
BEFORE ME,
Joshua J. Eaton
Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration.
Joshua J. Eaton
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
I, William M. Stratten Clerk in the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that Joshua J. Eaton is a Magistrate as above, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and subscribed my name this 26th day of July in the year 1848,
W. M. Stratten
Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County.

Lucretia Eaton. under joint resolution & act of July 7. 1838 —
admitted: $103.62 per annum. from 11 March, 1836 to 4 th March 1841. & under act 3 d March 1843. from 11 March 1843 to the 3 d May 1843 — N. H.
21 st Suez
Geo W. Morton Augusta Maine,

Declaration, In order to obtain the benefits of the Resolution of Congress of the 23 d January 1845
Wh ch rec s the Act of 30 th April 1844 prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioner. I now make the following statement, under Oath, to obtain the benefits of the resolution above named. I am the widow of Elias Eaton who was a Sergeant and Corporal, in the War of the Revolution. I have drawn a pension of One hundred and three dollars and sixty two cents per annum under Act of March 3. 1843 from the 3 d day of May 1843 to the 4 th day of March 1844 and now ask for the amount due me under Act of July 7. 1838 from March 4 th 1836 to March 4. 1841, and also under the Act of March 3. 1843 from March 4. 1843 to May 3. 1843.
Lucretia Eaton
State of Maine
Franklin County, Sworn to and subscribed before me on this (with) day of February A D 1845. For Feb y 10. 1845, at Strong in the County of Franklin State of Maine.
Phil. M. Stebbins Justice of the Peace
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
Phil. M. Stebbins Justice of the Peace

Georgia Contn.
under joint resolution of act
of July 7. 1838 —
advised: c $103.62 per annum
from 11 March, 1838 to 4th
March 1841 & under
act 3 d March 1843.
from 11 March 1843 to the
3 d May 1843 —
Geo. W. Morton Secy
W. H. Stubble
Strong H. 12
01
Geo. W. Morton
Augusta
Maine.
State of Maine,
Winnobec County, S.S. I the subscriber, clerk of the Judicial Court, held for and within said County do hereby certify that P. M. Stubble is a Justice of the Peace as within stated and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine
Witness my hand and the seal of the Sup. Jud. Court of Maine, this thirteenth day of February A. D. 1845.
Wm. M. Stubble

State of Maine.
I William Allen Clerk, for the County of Somerset of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is Strictly  one dollars, and not  cents, and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is Strictly one dollars and Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighth day of November 1820.
William Allen Clerk of said Court for the County of Somerset .

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Eliab Eaton Strong, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Maine, on the fourteenth day of April, A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty third day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston Jr. C. Just C. C. Pleas 2 d E. Circuit.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
A handwritten signature in cursive, likely that of the Clerk, positioned to the right of the attestation text.

Eliab Eaton. Strong Somerset Co. Serg t Col Jackson Mass Reg. March 1781. to Dec r 1783. - 2 y 9 m
April 14. 1818
Admitted
On final settlement

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Eliab Eaton, aged fifty five years, a citizen of the United States, born in Reading Massachusetts now a resident in Strong in the District of Maine - Upon Oath testify and declare that I enlisted in the month of March 1781. for the period of three years into the United States army during the revolutionary war upon the continental establishment against the common enemy into the company commanded by Cap Thomas Hartshorne and regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson 3 rd Reg. Massachusetts line. I fully served out the period of my enlistment took my final and honorable discharge from the army December 1783. as belonging to Captain Oliver Forre company 3 rd Regiment of the same Massachusetts line having been transferred to that Regiment My discharge was signed by Major General Knox - my discharge I have since lost - and is not now in existence to my knowledge From my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension hitherto allowed me by the laws of the United States if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever - I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine -
Eliab Eaton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Number 33
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On the fourteenth day of April A.D 1818 Eliab Eaton above named, after having been carefully warned, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, by him subscribed.
Before me, Nathan Weston Esq. Chief Justice C Court C Pleas Second Eastern Circuit
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I John Clough, of Phillips Maine, of lawful age testify and declare that I am well acquainted with Eliab Eaton above named - From his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support - he possesses the character of a man of truth -
John Clough
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Number 34. On the fourteenth day of April A.D 1818, John Clough above named, after having been carefully warned, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. Before me,
Nathan Weston Esq. Chief Justice C Court C Pleas Second Eastern Circuit